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JetLinus · 24 Dec 2003, 15:23

Hey, if you go for basic anyway, why not Visual Basic? I mean, at least that's a "proper" real language. You get full support everywhere on the net, MSDN, WinAPI, external DLLs, original DirectX, Winsocks...
I've looked at DarkBASIC, but it looks more like a "toy". Why take the dialect, if you can get the "real" one?

Really, VB is a proper language IMO (ok, its RAD, but anyway), unlike darkBasic... Other MS Office Apps etc support it, and it's one of the "better" products MS is responsible for.
And it's useful beyond game programming...

24 Dec 2003, 15:23	#13
JetLinus Friendly geek of GD :-/ Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: On my metal roid Posts: 923	Re: Want to program a game... Hey, if you go for basic anyway, why not Visual Basic? I mean, at least that's a "proper" real language. You get full support everywhere on the net, MSDN, WinAPI, external DLLs, original DirectX, Winsocks... I've looked at DarkBASIC, but it looks more like a "toy". Why take the dialect, if you can get the "real" one? Really, VB is a proper language IMO (ok, its RAD, but anyway), unlike darkBasic... Other MS Office Apps etc support it, and it's one of the "better" products MS is responsible for. And it's useful beyond game programming... __________________ [»] Entropy increases! :-/